The Philco Television Playhouse

The Philco Television Playhouse Season 4

TV Show

Season 4 Episodes

1. Marcia Akers

October 21st, 19511 hr

A young woman has an unhealthy desire to get ahead, climbing the social ladder and stepping on people along the way. She's set to marry a wealthy man--just what's always wanted--when she finds herself in love with a "regular guy".

2. The Education of a Fullback

November 4th, 19511 hr

A comedy on the foibles of campus activities about a professor who can't understand why a football hero shouldn't be given an unsatisfactory grade especially when he slept thru the classes.

3. A Little Night Music

November 18th, 19511 hr

Elizabeth Chapin is the belle of the town who is now approaching 40 as a spinster music teacher.

4. Incident at Golden's Creek

December 2nd, 19511 hr

An Iron Curtain delegation is marooned in a small mid-western town.

5. Perspective

December 16th, 19511 hr

The play suggested by the career of Hans VanMergeren called the master art forger.

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6. The Sisters

December 30th, 19511 hr

The lives of two sisters are disrupted by a psychopath who appears claiming to be their godson.

7. Without Fear or Favor

January 13th, 19521 hr

Modern day corruption investigations (film of the Kefauver investigation is shown) has a parallel in 1870s New York, where the New York Times crusades against the crooks in City Hall headed by Boss Tweed and his thieving cronies, which included judges, police officials and even the Mayor.

8. Segment

January 27th, 19521 hr

During a convention, a visiting family takes a hotel room. The father and Mother get ready while the daughter leaves. The wife nagging pushes the man over the edge and he is determined to kill her after he makes her listen to his list of reasons she's been cruel to him. Meanwhile police try to talk him out of it, and watch him with a television camera across the street.

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9. Rich Boy

February 10th, 19521 hr

This well-received adaptation of the 1924 F. Scott Fitzgerald short story starred Gene Lyons as rich playboy Anson Hunter, who realizes too late that he has wasted his life by allowing the one woman he truly loved (Kelly) to slip out of his grasp.

10. Tender Age

February 24th, 19521 hr

The tragic aspects of the so-called "lost generation" of the 20's is told.

11. Dusty Portrait

March 9th, 19521 hr

A tragic story of an innocent victim of justice based entirely on circumstantial evidence.

12. The Best Laid Schemes

March 23rd, 19521 hr

Boy can we relate to this PLOT TWIST from back in the 40's. Doctors are helpless in dealing with an epidemic that hits New York City. The answer is provided by an exterminator.

13. The Room Next Door

April 5th, 19521 hr

A social-climbing couple scheme to find a mate for their unromantic inclined daughter. She however prefers an unstable piano player over an established member of the tea and crumpet set, things build up with a tragic ending.

14. The Basket Weaver

April 19th, 19521 hr

The story of the marine assault on Iwo Jima leads a former veteran into a crackup with a bullying personality increased by a personal crisis.

15. We Were Children

May 4th, 19521 hr

A close knit family learns that a man who was the son of their family gardener is related to them thru an indiscretion.

16. A Cowboy for Chris

May 18th, 19521 hr

A little boy's infatuation for a cowboy who boards at his home and another boarder who attempts to disillusion the child.

17. A Man's Game

June 1st, 19521 hr

A big league manager travels to Alabama to scout catcher Chub Evans but signs Evans' fireball pitching sister instead.

18. Flight into Darkness

June 15th, 19521 hr

A psychological drama about two brothers obsessed with the idea that he is going insane and later that his brother, a doctor is going to murder him.

19. The Monument

June 29th, 19521 hr

A reporter has undertaken the biography of a Confederate general to get the authentic version of his heroism at Bull Run.

20. A Letter to Mr. Priest

July 13th, 19521 hr

The camera becomes you and you become the narrator as the camera becomes a person and unfolds the story. Nelson Olmsted is the voice.

21. Bratt Farrar

July 27th, 19521 hr

No Not Brett Favre- Brat Farrar has been carefully coached to assume the identity of Patrick Ashby, heir to the Ashby fortune who disappeared when he was 13.

22. The Five Fathers of Pepi

August 10th, 19521 hr

A young war orphan is taken in by five men living along the Italian Riviera. Their hope is to find a wealthy American couple who will adopt Pepi and give him a proper upbringing. When the time comes to give the tyke up.

23. Three Sundays

August 24th, 19521 hr

A criminal brings scandal to the family of a dead intelligence officer but eventually confesses his shoddy motives for creating the affair and absolves the dead man.

24. The Last Hour

September 7th, 19521 hr

A woman is on trial for espionage and has but a few hours to prove her innocence.

25. Holiday Song

September 14th, 19521 hr

The night before Rosh Hashonah, a cantor suffers a spiritual crisis. That same night, he is sent by someone to see a rabbi out in Brooklyn, A mysterious train station attendant gives him directions after which he stops a woman from committing suicide because she is despondent over the death of her husband in the war. On his way home, the cantor meets up with the husband. He thought his wife had died. The cantor reunites them. After trying to find the station guard, the cantor learns that no one has ever worked there fitting the man's description. thus the cantor realizes that some sort of 'celestial conductor' must have had a hand in the matter. His faith restored, the cantor is able to resume his life's work.

All Seasons

Season 8

Season 8

Sep 4, 1955
Season 7

Season 7

Sep 19, 1954
Season 6

Season 6

Sep 27, 1953
Season 5

Season 5

Sep 21, 1952
Season 4

Season 4

Oct 21, 1951
Season 3

Season 3

Sep 10, 1950
Season 2

Season 2

Sep 4, 1949
Season 1

Season 1

Oct 3, 1948